Newegg blames tariffs for RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 price hikes, but then walks it back

Tariffs as corporate alibi for shameless price gouging reaches critical mass. Newegg's deleted tweets exposed the game – slap a 10% geopolitical tax on imports, then jack prices 18-70% while blaming DC. MSI/ASUS transformed tariff math into postmodern larceny, hiking $1,999 GPUs to $3,409 before lunch.

The grift's architecture: limited "launch stock" creates FOMO frenzy, letting manufacturers rebrand scalper economics as "supply chain adjustments." ASRock's manufacturing shuffle to Taiwan? Kabuki theater – takes years while current inventories bleed consumers dry.

Nvidia's silence screams complicity. "Free market" fundamentalists cheerlead this extractive circus, where every tariff percentage point becomes license for exponential rent-seeking. Innovation now means inventing better ways to fleece PC builders between crypto/AI boom cycles.

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Tariffs as corporate alibi for shameless price gouging reaches critical mass. Newegg's deleted tweets exposed the game – slap a 10% geopolitical tax on imports, then jack prices 18-70% while blaming DC. MSI/ASUS transformed tariff math into postmodern larceny, hiking $1,999 GPUs to $3,409 before lunch.
The grift's architecture: limited "launch stock" creates FOMO frenzy, letting manufacturers rebrand scalper economics as "supply chain adjustments." ASRock's manufacturing shuffle to Taiwan? Kabuki theater – takes years while current inventories bleed consumers dry.
Nvidia's silence screams complicity. "Free market" fundamentalists cheerlead this extractive circus, where every tariff percentage point becomes license for exponential rent-seeking. Innovation now means inventing better ways to fleece PC builders between crypto/AI boom cycles.
These prices are insane, My 4090 is selling used for $2600 on eBay now, a thousand dollars more than i spent on it a year ago
- My 6800 doubled in price, so glad I had money last year lol